Emil teltschik



N0. 6|3,l9|. Patented 13..24, I899. E. TELTSCHIK.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR CORSETS.

(Application filed June 2, 1898.1

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL TEL'ISCHIK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR CORSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,191, dated January 24, 1899.

Application filed June 2, 1898. Serial No. 682,362. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL TELTSOHIK, manufacturer, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, anda resident of No. 37 Berggasse, Vienna, Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for Corsets or Stays, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fastening devices for corsets or stays, and has for its object to provide a simple efficient, and cheap device of this kind.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 2, 3, aud t showfront elevations of myimproved corset-fastener in various positions. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5 5, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a similar view of a modification of my device.

In the drawings, A B are the busks of the corset or stay.

B B are headed pins secured to the busk B, and A A are vertically-slotted plates or hooks opening downwardly and secured to the other busk A opposite to the pins B B. Opposite to the uppermost pin B on the husk B there is secured to the busk A a plate A, having in it an S-shaped slot A A The hook A which is nearly in the center of the busk A, is longer than the hooks A A The width of the slots in the plate A and in the hooks A A is smaller than the diameter of the heads, but greater than the diameter of the shanks of the pins.

In putting on the corset or stay the busk B is approached toward the busk A and moved downward along the latter until the extremity of the longer hook A just engages with the corresponding pin B on the busk B, the outer end of the said hook entering under the head of the pin, as shown in Fig. 1. The other pins B B are at this time still out of engagement with their hooks A and plate A, respectively. Then the upper end of the busk A is brought over the upper end of the busk B, in which movement the pin B, engaging with the hook A serves as a pivot for the busk A, while the other pins B, which are not yet in engagement with their hooks, do not interfere with such move ment on account of the elasticity of the busks. The busk A is then moved downward along the busk B, so that the uppermost pin B comes in front of the enlarged lower inner end of the S-shaped slot A A in the plate A and is slipped therethrough, the diameter of the said enlarged end of such slot being somewhat greater than the diameter of the head of the pin B This position of the parts is shown in Fig. 2. Then the upper ends of the busks are drawn apart, whereby the pin B is carried into the outer end of the horizontal bottom portion of the slot A A of the plate A and the pins B are caused to engage with their hooks A as shown in Fig. 3. Also in this movement the pin-B, engaging with the hook A serves as a pivot. Then the husk A is shifted downward along the busk B, so that the pin B slides upward in the slot A A and finally this pin is caused to lodge itself into the outer end of the horizontal top portion of the S-shaped slot A A as shown in Fig. 4, either by slightly drawing apart the upper ends of the busks or by the pressure of the body. The fastening device is then looked, and any accidental unlocking of such device and opening of the corset or stay is prevented. The heads of the pins 15' B overlapping the edges of the hooks and of the slot A A prevent the lousk A from being forced outward. The horizontal top portion of the slot A A in the plate A prevents a vertical displacement of the busk A, and the pressure of the body prevents the upper ends of the busks to approach each other.

When it is desired to put 0d the corset or stay, the operations above described are repeated in reverse order. After having disengaged the pin B from the plate A, Fig. 1,

it is only necessary to shift the husk A upward along the busk B to disengage all hooks from their pins, the stay or corset being then open.

Instead of hooks plates with elongated slots having enlarged openings at the bottom ends may be used, so that the heads of the pins B are slipped through such enlarged openings in the same way as has been already described with reference to the pin B and slot A A in the plate A. For increasing the stiffness of the hooks their jaws may be convex in cross-section, and finally the slots and openings of the hooks A A and of the plate A may be provided with a sheet-metal cover, as shown in Fig. 6.

I claim- In combination with a corset and its busks a series of headed pins secured to one of the busks, a plate with an S-shaped slot in it such slot having an enlarged opening at the inner end of its horizontal bottom portion and such plate being secured to the upper portion of the other busk, a series of Vertically-slotted plates secured to such other husk below the first-named plate the vertical slots of such plates being enlarged at their lower ends and the vertical slot of one of such plates which is about in the center of the said other husk being longer than the vertical slots of the other plates, the pins on the first husk being adapted to be brought opposite to, to engage with and to be shifted along the slots in the plates to such other busk the size of the enlargements of such slots permitting the heads of the pins on the first busk to he slipped through them, the width of the remainder of such slots being smaller than the diameter of the heads but greater than the diameter of the shanks of such pins.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EMIL TELTSOHIK. Witnesses:

HENRY O. CARPENTER, CHAS. E. CARPENTER. 

